Elder Stephen Chipman is currently serving in the Argentina Buenos Aires South Mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.

Monday, November 4, 2013

Buenos Tardes!

Buenos Tardes!

It’s been a great week here in Budge!

We have two new investigators, and they have baptismal dates
for the 30th of November! Their names are Alejandra y Angela. They literally
live under a mountain of garbage. Their front courtyard is about 10 feet by 10
feet, and it is filled about 5 feet high with garbage! But we taught them about
the plan of salvation, and they seem to have a desire to do what it takes! We
meet with them again tomorrow--which might be a problem because we have exchanges
tomorrow.I’m going with an Elder who is
from Arizona, and has only been here for 2 months, so our Spanish isn’t exactly
good. Luckily the Spirit does all the work right?

Anyway, about the soccer here. Every P-day we play soccer,
and seriously, I get destroyed. A chapel in our zone has a small soccer court
and we play games of 5 on 5. My companion played on a professional team in Paraguay. It is
the equivalent to a minor league team in the States, so he’s really good. Then
there are the rest of the Latinos that move so fast and quick, and I just can’t
keep up. Luckily there are about 5 other Gringos that play like me, so we laugh
and have fun, and dream about the day when we can play basketball again!

Mom: First off, forgive me but I completely forgot to tell
you thank you for the Birthday Presents. Seriously, the CD was exactly what I
wanted, and the ties are perfect. I’m actually wearing one right now. And the
Candy Corn is gone. But I shared it and Latinos don’t really like it, so I
didn’t have a problem!

I baked the cake (pumpkin cake) on Halloween, but it was
really difficult. The oven doesn’t have degrees, it’s a fire oven and there is
only a dial for how much fire you want. But it turned out to be perfect. The
frosting was what I failed on. They have different measurements here, so I just
did it by sight, and honestly, didn’t work out super well. But the cake as a
whole tasted great! Again, my roommates didn’t like it very much, which is
exactly what I wanted! I finished eating it this morning!